> actually, you *must* dither at every truncation step - if you don't, you > will lose information _and_ introduce signal-dependent requantisation > noise, which can never be removed again. > so the best approach is to only reduce the wordlength once, at the very > end of the chain, before going to CD. This is a correct recommendation. > some mastering people (bob katz among them) even go as far as demanding > dither at every level control in the chain. Strictly speaking, this does not save you (and by you, I mean Bob Katz). Further operations after dithering can 'break' the dither and reintroduce distortion. Then you have the worst of both worlds; the distortion _and_ the added noise. Working at 24 bit / 32 float, this is academic and won't hurt you in any audible way. It's too far below the audible floor to care about. Monty _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
